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Unit Description:
You want high visibility, challenging opportunities and a rewarding environment.
You want high visibility, challenging opportunities and a rewarding environment.
Sodexo, A global leader in Quality of Life Services, has an exciting opportunity for a Vice President, Finance within its Airline Lounges Segment. This is a virtual position and the successful candidate may be located preferably in the Dallas, TX area or anywhere in the United States close to a major airport.
The Vice President of Finance is an integral member of the Airline Lounges segment leadership team, reporting to the North American Segment’s COO, while receiving strong support and direction from the Global Segment Chief Financial Officer (CFO), to ensure that the financial aspects of the segment’s overall business strategy and performance objectives are achieved in North America.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Providing financial and strategic leadership and partnership to the Segment that supports profitable growth and performance.
Contributing to Regional financial leadership in shaping the North American Finance Function to support attainment of the Region and Global Airline Lounges goals and ambitions.
Providing strong commercial expertise, financial engineering, and contractual acumen developed through an in-depth understanding of Airline Lounges Segment’s specific needs and providing financial support to the business development and retention processes by providing leadership and insights with the negotiation of complex deals, ensuring the Segment’s profitable growth by ensuring contractual terms and protections.
Contributing to the target and forecast process at the Region Segment level to set financial targets and performing follow-up against targets and forecasts.
Partnering with Region FP&A to provide further variance analyses concerning region segment business (vs budget and vs forecast), to support remediation plans, and to propose actions to increase profitability and cash flow.
Ensuring financial discipline in regional investment decisions, including the application of Right Clients Right Terms (RCRT), Group Delegation of Authorities (DOA), building business cases for regional OPEX and CAPEX commercial investments; directly assisting the Global Segment CFO with building business cases for potential Sodexo Venture Fund and Acquisition opportunities, and using factual ROI and monitoring post-event activities to drive learnings.
Supporting the overall performance of the Airline Lounges segment in the region and driving key regional Segment initiatives (turnaround loss-making contracts, pass-on inflation, mobilization, Labor management,…) and global initiatives (Waste Management, including ensuring adequate follow-up between Airline Lounges and Service Operations.
Developing and nurturing Finance Talent and building a strong and effective Finance organization.
Is this opportunity right for you?
This role requires excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills, the ability to effectively partner with senior management, peers, and more junior roles within the organization, a demonstrated ability to partner with business operations to drive profitable growth, strong financial and commercial acumen, proven experience with acquisitions as well as contractual/risk management discipline, with proven ability to interact with clients in an international environment. In addition, the qualified candidate should have experience managing change and the ability to lead within an environment of continuous evolution and improvement. You should have a minimum of 10 years of related professional experience in Finance with demonstrated ongoing increased responsibility. Fluency in other languages, an MBA, CPA or other advanced credentials is a plus.
At Sodexo, we believe every employee should have the resources to be their best. As part of our overall rewards, we offer benefits programs designed to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle including health, dental and vision insurance. We also offer other benefits like paid time off, financial and savings programs, 401k, and access to our employee assistance program and other discounts. Click here for more information about Sodexo’s Benefits. This job pays a salary in the $141,800 – $200,000 range and is bonus eligible.
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Working for Sodexo:
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Position Summary:
Responsible for the financial leadership of a segment in a region, driving the performance of the Finance function to support delivery of the segment goal and ambitions, with the support of the transversal Finance function.
Purpose of the Job and characteristics
Enabling segment performance at regional level through financial leadership and partnership for business support
Contributing to segment-wide financial leadership and driving the performance of the Finance function to support delivery of the segment goal and ambitions
Contributing to delivery and achievement of the Regional Segment’s strategic objectives, priorities and financial targets
Aligning segment and finance strategic priorities at regional level, ensuring the needs of the segment are met by Transversal Finance in the region and countries; ensuring full alignment with Group Finance policies, processes and procedures
Qualifications & Requirements:
Basic Education Requirement – Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience – 10 years
Basic Functional Experience – 10 years in accounting or finance
Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.
